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		acqq on April 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to share your data effectively Everything is readable by computer, if you have the program which reads it. For tabular data nobody needs the name of each field in every line. For non-tabular data, why not using JSON?

hmottestad on April 8, 2013 [–]

Understandable.

RDF is understandable by computers. It brings it's semantics along.

CSV is only syntax. It doesn't even support datatypes.

JSON is simply a data format serialisation. RDF can be serialised to JSON or to XML if you wish.

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